Toy



Nov. 28, 1944'. E HERZ- 2,363,588

TOY

Filed June 4, 1943 INVENTORm ERwl/v H BRZ ATron/vsu'.

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which a tongue 3 projects.

Patented Nov. 28, 1944 y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

p I 2,363,588 i i f TOY 1 Erwin Herz, New York, N. Y. Application June 4, 1943, Serial No. 489,594 ZClaims. (01.46-139) The invention relates to toys and particularly to toys adapted to be converted from cardboard sheets into the final article.

; It is the main object of the invention to proe vide in toys of this type simple and efficient means for producing rattle noises.

of example in its application to a machine gun toy folded from a cardboard sheet.

Fig. 1 shows a front elevation of the toy and Fig. 2 shows a vertical sectional elevation on triangle shaped body of the machine gun toy consistingof two side walls 8 and a base 9, which is assembled from a single cardboard sheet.

i claims. i

, With this and other objects in view which will i become apparent as this specification proceeds,

the invention is describedand illustrated by way,

.The corrugated strip 1 is energetically pulled through'slots 4. The undulations l3 of the corrugated strip I impact against the lower edge 5 of the tongue; a series of sounds is hereby created whichvery perfectly imitates the rattle noise of a machine gun in action;

Various changes and modifications. maybe ,made to ,the details ofconstructidn of the inl vention without departing from the broader spirit The toy body is provided with suitable pic torial illustrations showing the particulars of a machine gun: however, being theminiature representation of an ordinary machine gun, detailed description of the article does not seem to be The side walls 8 of the toy are provided with two laterally inclined incisions -II at opposite points of the two walls and a lower or bottom incision HI. An orifice 2 ishereby produced into united with the toy body along the dotted line l0, Fig. 1.. i

The tongue remains through the said slot.

The cardboard material of the toy is semi-j;

elastic or pliable; therefore, the union of the tongue with the toy body on line In permits a to and fro movement of the tongue within the orifice 2. A small strip is severed fromthe lower free end of the tongue 3 and a small slot 4 is,

hereby produced between the edge of the wall bordering the orifice and the lower edge 5 of the tongue.

This slot leaves a sufiicient clearance. for the introduction of a corrugated cardboard strip 1 to be pulled through the slot; the width of the aperture formed in the said wall by the incisions, i the said tongue being terminated before it abuts 40 slot 4 is smaller than the height of the strip undulations in the vertical plane of their vor-.

texes.

;Th operation ofthe toy is self-evident.

and scope thereof, as set forth in the following particularly toy machine guncomprising a toy body, at least one wall of flexible material constitutingthe said toy body, aplurality' of incisions in the said wall located in such a manner as to sever from the saidwall a substantially trapezoidal tongue, but leavingthe said tongue atits base united with the said, wall, the tongue thereby freely extending through thetrapezoidal aperture formed in the said wall by the incisions, the said tongue being terminated before it abuts against the opposite edge of the said orifice, whereby a slot is created between the free end of the, tongue and the said wall and a strip of undulated flexible material adapted to be pulled 2. Toy for. the production of rattle noises and. particularly toy machine gun comprising atoy body, at least one wall of flexible materialconstituting the said toy body, a plurality ofincisions in the said wall located in such a manner as toseverfrom thesaid wall a substantially trapezoidal tongue, but leaving the said tongue at its base united with the said wall, the tongue f thereby freely extending through trapezoidal i against the opposite edge of the said orifice, whereby a slot is created between the free end of the tongue and the said wall and a strip of un dulated flexiblematerial adapted to be pulled throughthe said slot, the height. of the undulaa tion being larger than the width of the said slot ERWIN HERZ. u 1 

